[Insight-users] Difference between itkDeformableSimplexMesh3DFilter and itkDeformableMesh3DFilter

[Dženan Zukić]

Thanks a lot for the insight. I didn't know about triangle mesh to simplex
filter - it could come in quite handy.

Regards,
Dženan

2010/5/25 Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>

> Hi Dženan
>
>
> Summary:
> ========
>
> Both classes implement a Deformable Model algorithm.
> The main difference between the two is that one of them
> expects a Triangulated Mesh as input, while the other
> one expects a Simplex Mesh as input.
>
>
>
> Details:
> ======
>
> The class:
>
> http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableSimplexMesh3DFilter.html
>
> is an abstract class, with an specialized implementation in
>
> http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableSimplexMesh3DBalloonForceFilter.html
> and
>
> http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableSimplexMesh3DGradientConstraintForceFilter.html
>
>
> This filter expect as input a Simplex mesh,
> which can typically be generated by the filter:
>
> http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1TriangleMeshToSimplexMeshFilter.html
>
> For a description of the Simplex Mesh concept,
> please look at
> http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Herve.Delingette/simplex/index.php
>
>
>
> On the other hand, the class
>
> http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableMesh3DFilter.html
>
> operates on a standard itk::Mesh.
>
>
> Please note that the classes
>
> http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableSimplexMesh3DBalloonForceFilter.html
>
> http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableSimplexMesh3DGradientConstraintForceFilter.html
>
> have been gone through a better testing and verification than
> the class
>
> http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableMesh3DFilter.html
>
>
>
>     Regards,
>
>
>            Luis
>
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 2010/5/25 Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com>:
> > Hi everyone!
> > Can someone explain the difference between those two filters? They look
> > suspiciously similar.
> > Thanks,
> > Dženan
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